Installation info: See documents...GT Studio confirms this work requires a 13amp supply. ***DO NOT TURN OFF THE WORK MID SEQUENCE***Sensor sits 11.1 cm from the floor. Power supply and controls to the reverse.An electronic waxwork of the artist as a laughing, drunken sailor.The odd sailor is an itinerant vagrant of the high seas trapped like a butterfly in a glass case. Hollow laughter repeating in circular patterns of jerky movement. The seaside freak as free spirit forever doomed to play out the instructions of the operator like a giant puppet. Jolly Jack tar, (union jack) colonialism. “As it hit the water the fire hissed and the sinking pipe became no more than bubbles. Jim remembered old Sampan, his teeth blackened with betel, who had given him the pipe on the other side of the globe all those years ago; how he’d predicted the fate of that infernal device, saying it would betray him and meet a watery grave. Recalling the image of Sampan only moments later himself accidentally falling off the boat brought Jim to his feet and pointing into the water, the quizzical look on his face changed, his head rolled and from the base of his stomach came a thunderous laugh.” Gavin Turk

Gentleman Jim

Life Sized Automaton

Installation info: See documents...GT Studio confirms this work requires a 13amp supply. ***DO NOT TURN OFF THE WORK MID SEQUENCE***Sensor sits 11.1 cm from the floor. Power supply and controls to the reverse.An electronic waxwork of the artist as a laughing, drunken sailor.The odd sailor is an itinerant vagrant of the high seas trapped like a butterfly in a glass case. Hollow laughter repeating in circular patterns of jerky movement. The seaside freak as free spirit forever doomed to play out the instructions of the operator like a giant puppet. Jolly Jack tar, (union jack) colonialism. “As it hit the water the fire hissed and the sinking pipe became no more than bubbles. Jim remembered old Sampan, his teeth blackened with betel, who had given him the pipe on the other side of the globe all those years ago; how he’d predicted the fate of that infernal device, saying it would betray him and meet a watery grave. Recalling the image of Sampan only moments later himself accidentally falling off the boat brought Jim to his feet and pointing into the water, the quizzical look on his face changed, his head rolled and from the base of his stomach came a thunderous laugh.” Gavin Turk

Automaton

Self-Portrait

Outsider

The Sea

Fool

Masks

Faces

Sculpture

Installation info: See documents... GT Studio confirms this work requires a 13amp supply.  ***DO NOT TURN OFF THE WORK MID SEQUENCE*** Sensor sits 11.1 cm from the floor.  Power supply and controls to the reverse. An electronic waxwork of the artist as a laughing, drunken sailor. The odd sailor is an itinerant vagrant of the high seas trapped like a butterfly in a glass case. Hollow laughter repeating in circular patterns of jerky movement. The seaside freak as free spirit forever doomed to play out the instructions of the operator like a giant puppet.

Installation info: hang framed artwork on suitable wallA screen printed black frame on paper leaving a white A4 space to look like a framed blank piece of paper.

Positive Negative A4

Silkscreen ink and diamond dust on paper

Installation info: hang framed artwork on suitable wallA screen printed black frame on paper leaving a white A4 space to look like a framed blank piece of paper.

Signatures

Silkscreen

Installation info: hang framed artwork on suitable wall A screen printed black frame on paper leaving a white A4 space to look like a framed blank piece of paper.

A bronze cast of a small polystyrene cup painted with green smears to resemble the leftover traces of mushy peas.

Peas &amp; Love

Painted bronze

Polystyrene

Packaging

Food

Trompe L'oeil

A bronze cast of a small polystyrene cup painted with green smears to resemble the leftover traces of mushy peas.

Peas & Love

Chewing gum cast in resin set into 24 carat gold earrings.

Chewing Gum Earrings

Resin & 24 carat gold

Chewing gum cast in resin set into 24 carat gold earrings.

A giant egg covered with white rabbit pelt placed on four solid oak blocks in reference to Meret Oppenheim, Rene Magritte, Constantin Brancusi, Piero Manzoni, Carl Andre and Joseph Beuys.

Duck Rabbit

Rabbit pelt, fibreglass and wood

Eggs

Magritte

Animalia

A giant egg covered with white rabbit pelt placed on four solid oak blocks in reference to Meret Oppenheim, Rene Magritte, Constantin Brancusi, Piero Manzoni, Carl Andre and Joseph Beuys.

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on an orange background.

Fright Wig Orange

Silkscreen ink and metallic paint on canvas

Warhol

Appropriation

Icons

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on an orange background.

A bronze cast of a wooden chip fork painted to look real.

Just a Chip Fork

A bronze cast of a wooden chip fork painted to look real.

Alchemical Can

Polished 18 carat gold

Rubbish

A print of the Artist as Che Guevara in blue on a brown background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Blue on Brown Che

Revolution

A print of the Artist as Che Guevara in blue on a brown background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

A bronze cast of lotus seed head and stem, painted green and brown to resemble the original plant.

Lotus Eater

Lotus

A bronze cast of lotus seed head and stem, painted green and brown to resemble the original plant.

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in silver on a black background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Silver Negative Beuys

Beuys

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in silver on a black background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene chip tray painted to look real with pieces of resin to resemble chip residue. Finding beauty in the trashy and ugly, Turk gives the polystyrene used chip tray &ndash; alongside with its cousin the burger tray &ndash; a grandiose makeover, transforming rubbish into art in the form of a painted bronze sculpture. The remains of a traditional English dish and cheap street food for the masses, Turk&rsquo;s chip trays become elegiac and nostalgic relics not just of a hearty meal but a set of cultural values which appear to be rapidly vanishing.

Chip Tray

Resin & painted bronze

A bronze cast of a polystyrene chip tray painted to look real with pieces of resin to resemble chip residue. Finding beauty in the trashy and ugly, Turk gives the polystyrene used chip tray – alongside with its cousin the burger tray – a grandiose makeover, transforming rubbish into art in the form of a painted bronze sculpture. The remains of a traditional English dish and cheap street food for the masses, Turk’s chip trays become elegiac and nostalgic relics not just of a hearty meal but a set of cultural values which appear to be rapidly vanishing.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real. Displayed on its side.

Crushed &lsquo;n&rsquo; Fallen

Cups

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea & painted to look real. Displayed on its side.

Crushed 'n' Fallen

A print of the Artist as Andy Warhol in black on a yellow background.

Fright Wig Pale Yellow

A print of the Artist as Andy Warhol in black on a yellow background.

Odyssey

A screen printed black frame on paper leaving a white A4 space to look like a framed blank piece of paper.

Acrylic silkscreen on paper

A screen printed black frame on paper leaving a white A4 space to look like a framed blank piece of paper.

A bronze cast of the middle of a toilet roll painted to look real.

Bog Roll 

Domestic

A bronze cast of the middle of a toilet roll painted to look real.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real with a crack down the side.

Tea and Crack

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea & painted to look real with a crack down the side.

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on a red background.

Fright Wig Red

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on a red background.

A bronze cast of a pillow in a striped pillow case, painted to look real

Inheritance

A bronze cast of a pillow in a striped pillow case, painted to look real

Lotus Flower

A bronze cast of a used match painted to look real.

A miniature echo of

Burnt Out

, this match was used to start the fire. Its sulphur is used up and the tiny tool discarded.

The simple tool used to start a fire, Turk’s bronze spent matches tells a story of life and early civilisation but also of destruction, fire-starters and revolutionaries. But the life of these matches has come to an end. Their purpose fulfilled, they have been discarded as waste - symbols relating to fire but also of fires which have burnt out. And yet this tiny piece of detritus, so easy to overlook on the street, has been cast in bronze. Something fragile, ephemeral and worthless has been transformed at the hand of Turk into something solid and permanent, containing within it both hidden value and hidden meaning.

Spent Match

Fire

Waste

A bronze cast of a used match painted to look real. A miniature echo of Burnt Out , this match was used to start the fire. Its sulphur is used up and the tiny tool discarded.

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on a blue background.

Fright Wig Blue

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on a blue background.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real.

Tea and Polystyrene

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea & painted to look real.

A negative print of the Artist as Andy Warhol in black on a silver background.

Silver Negative Fright Wig

A negative print of the Artist as Andy Warhol in black on a silver background.

A bronze cast of 2 stacked polystyrene cups painted to look real.

Double Cup

A bronze cast of 2 stacked polystyrene cups painted to look real.

A bronze cast of lotus seed head and stem, painted to look real.

Homer

A bronze cast of lotus seed head and stem, painted to look real.

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in fluorescent pink with an image of a safety pin through the nose. Displayed in a white box frame.

Pink Beuys (Nappy Pin)

Punk

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in fluorescent pink with an image of a safety pin through the nose. Displayed in a white box frame.

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in black with diamond dust on a blue background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Beuys in Diamond Dust

Silkscreen on canvas with diamond dust 

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in black with diamond dust on a blue background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.